"h.e.l.lo everyone, sorry I'm late," Alexis said as she walked into the room, and took her place at the front. "I'm Professor Swift, but you can call me Alexis. I do hate formality."

"Yes, you've never been particularly fond of that, have you?" Everyone turned to see two naked people, who looked no older than teenagers, appear at the front with Alexis.

"Sophie, Matt!" Alexis exclaimed happily. "Um...cla.s.s dismissed."

"But we've only just started!" Someone shouted.

"That's great, but I've got more important things to do," Alexis told them.

The three of them teleported back to Alexis' home, which was one of the largest and most magnificent homes on the planet, with the exception of the homes of the Imperial Family themselves.

"So where's Lumiosa?" Matt asked as he laid down on the sofa. "I wanna see her."

"She's probably in her lamp," Alexis replied. "She tends to hang out in there a lot."

"Well let's bring her here," Matt said. He raised his hand, and Lumiosa's lamp flew out of one of the rooms and into his hands. "Wow, I've not done this in a while." Matt then slowly rubbed the lamp, and clouds of pink smoke poured out, forming Lumiosa.

"Alexis, what have I told you about interr-" Lumiosa began, before she saw their visitors. "Master! Miss Sophie!"

"h.e.l.lo Lumiosa," Matt smiled as the three of them embraced, Alexis soon joining it.

"We've missed you both so much," Alexis said. "How long's it been since we last saw you? 300 years?"

"291," Lumiosa corrected her.

"It's been even longer for us," Sophie said. "Close to 10,000 years since we last visited you I think."

"10,000 years!?" Alexis exclaimed. "What have you two been doing!?"

"Oh, lots of stuff," Sophie replied. "We visited the 12 moons of the planet Jalifrax. We made love in orbit around a dying star. We shared a milk bath with Cleopatra."

"That girl knows how to suck c.o.c.k," Matt smiled.

"We did do other things though," Sophie continued. "We visited Earth a few times. Our Earth, not this interplanetary Empire that it's become. We watched Matt rub Lumiosa's lamp for the first time. The look on his face was priceless."

"I remember that," Lumiosa said. "You were most confused, Master."

"I can't help it, I'd never expected genies to be real!" Matt shouted.

"And I never expected to be a G.o.d, yet here we are," Sophie said.

"We're not G.o.ds!" Matt insisted. "We're just omnipotent. There's a difference."

"That's not what other people think. How many cultures have wors.h.i.+ped us now? 12? Those people on Ribos were cute. I loved those statues they made of us."

"Alright, so maybe we're G.o.ds. Or at least, some people consider us G.o.ds."

"This is all sounds so fascinating and exciting," Lumiosa said.

"It is, but life on Earth's good too," Sophie said. "I'm always thinking back to the times we spent together. Those 3 years where Alexis and I were BFFs, and those few weeks after Matt got his lamp. I'll have those memories with me forever."

"As will I," Alexis said. "I'll always be grateful to you for giving me this freedom."

"Yes, and you've been one of my kindest Masters ever, Master," Lumiosa said.

"I'm glad of this life we've got," Sophie said. "We're more privileged than anyone else. Even the other Masters."

"And I wouldn't trade it for the world," Matt smiled, kissing Sophie.